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M073 Competition design for Manchester Municipal Technical School

Address: Sackville Street, Manchester M1 3BB
Date: 1892
Client: Corporation of Manchester
Authorship:

(Mackintosh and Office)

1892: May: Architectural competition announced. 1
2 August: Deadline for submissions. 2
22 August: Alfred Waterhouse begins assessing entries. 3
September: Spalding & Cross confirmed as winners. 4
28 October and 4 November: John Honeyman & Keppie's unsuccessful design published in the British Architect. 5

1893: February: John Honeyman & Keppie's design exhibited at the Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts (799).

1894: John Honeyman & Keppie's design exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy (514).

Notes:

1: British Architect, 37, 20 May 1892, p. 369.

2: British Architect, 37, 20 May 1892, p. 369.

3: Builder, 63, 3 September 1892, p. 191.

4: Builder, 63, 10 September 1892, p. 206.

5: British Architect, 38, 28 October 1892, p. 314; 4 November 1892, p. 332.

'Mackintosh Architecture' led by The Hunterian, University of Glasgow, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council; with additional support from The Monument Trust, The Pilgrim Trust, and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art; and collaborative input from Historic Scotland and the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland.